Research Engineer, Artificial General Intelligence
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 129300 - 223600
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate talented and inventive Research Engineer with a strong hands-on machine learning background to support the development of industry-leading multimodal large-language foundational models (LLMs).
As a Research Engineer with the AGI team you will be responsible for supporting the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art. Your work will directly impact our customers and will leverage Amazons heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development with multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by working at the intersection of engineering and applied science to scale pre and post-training workflows and build efficient models. You will help drive the system architecture and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality infrastructure.
The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work hustle and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable scalable and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for pre and post-training multimodal LLMs.
- Scale training of models on hyper large GPU and AWS Trainium clusters
- Optimize training workflows using distributed training/parallelism techniques
- Optimize low-level details of the training stack including CUDA kernels communication collectives network I/O.
- Utilize build and extend upon industry leading frameworks (NeMo Megatron Core PyTorch Jax vLLM TRT etc)
- Work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technology scientific techniques and evaluate technical feasibility
- Deliver results independently in a self organizing Agile environment while constantly embracing and adapting new scientific advances
About the team
The AGI Foundations team is responsible for building industry leading Generative AI Foundational Models.
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- PhD or Masters degree in machine learning or equivalent
- 2 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Hands-on experience and expertise in training Foundational Models/LLMs and/or low-level optimization of ML training workflows CUDA kernels network I/O.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
As a Research Engineer with the AGI team you will be responsible for supporting the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art. Your work will directly impact our customers and will leverage Amazons heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development with multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by working at the intersection of engineering and applied science to scale pre and post-training workflows and build efficient models. You will help drive the system architecture and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality infrastructure.
The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work hustle and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable scalable and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.
Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for pre and post-training multimodal LLMs.
- Scale training of models on hyper large GPU and AWS Trainium clusters
- Optimize training workflows using distributed training/parallelism techniques
- Optimize low-level details of the training stack including CUDA kernels communication collectives network I/O.
- Utilize build and extend upon industry leading frameworks (NeMo Megatron Core PyTorch Jax vLLM TRT etc)
- Work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technology scientific techniques and evaluate technical feasibility
- Deliver results independently in a self organizing Agile environment while constantly embracing and adapting new scientific advances
About the team
The AGI Foundations team is responsible for building industry leading Generative AI Foundational Models.
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- PhD or Masters degree in machine learning or equivalent
- 2 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Hands-on experience and expertise in training Foundational Models/LLMs and/or low-level optimization of ML training workflows CUDA kernels network I/O.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Key Skills
- All-Source Intelligence
- Military Intelligence
- GIS
- ICD Coding
- Intelligence Experience
- Military Experience
- Analysis Skills
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Joint Operations
- Intelligence Analysis
- Leadership Experience
- Writing Skills
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